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Delegate Gallagher, will you proceed to

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consideration of Section 3.17 (A) (&)?

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DELEGATE GALLAGHER: I am going to apologize

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in advance for the technical nature of the discussion

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of 3.17 (A) (b) on corporate charters.

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For purposes of identification, I would like

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to call this the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad section.

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However, by that I don't mean to say that it applies only

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to the' Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, but then again I can't

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say that it applies to anybody else as well.

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This particular section was reluctantly,

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and I stress the word "reluctantly", included by the

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Committee on the Legislative Branch because it is by no

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means beauteous, nor does it possess the virtues of

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clarity or style, and at this point I must earnestly

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beg the Committee on Style and Drafting not to change a

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word because we are keeping it for its historical value,

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it is true, but also for its legal impact, whatever it

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may be.

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Now, we were ill-disposed to including it,

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but we were persuaded upon further study that we could